Merry Christmas to you as well! I can’t wait to see pictures of your catches.

You taking a boat or just fishing from the shore? I’ve never had any luck at Rockport. I hope your luck is better. I may go back up to Jordanelle. The weather is supposed to be fairly nice Tuesday. I’m supposed to work Tuesday, but I think they can do without me for an extra day. Post pictures of your successes.

All good ones, and all true.

Thanks! Where are you thinking you'll go on Tuesday?

Thanks Gordon.

Thanks EZ, it’s days like that, days where we catch a bunch, and days we catch nothing that keep us coming back, right?

Yep, that one was about the perfect eatin size. You get a couple real nice filets.

Thanks plumbob. You know what they say, even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while. 😉 When I showed the picture of the fish to my wife, she said look, you caught a size 13 fish.

That’s what I thought. It takes a whole lot less prep and gear to grab some worms and a rod and head out to fish from the shore.

Yep, that’s close enough to home I can decide to go fishing at 6:00 or so in the summer and get a couple hours of fishing before the sun goes down.

Thanks Fred. The ice is slow to form this year. We had planned to take the kids from church the day after Christmas to a lake that’s often frozen by Thanksgiving. We weren’t sure it was going to have enough ice so we had to put it off. That’s not all bad as I may head back up to this lake this weekend.

You are a lucky man! I can maybe get my wife to go with once every couple years.

Thank you sir, she totally gets it. I called as soon as I had service and she was just fine. She knows I’m less grumpy if I get to go fishing.

Thanks Grizzly. It’s at least always good for the soul!

Work has been getting in the way of a lot of things lately, especially fishing. I decided to sneak away last Saturday afternoon and wet a line. My wife had plans for us in the evening so I said I’d be home by 4:30. It’s been cold and we’ve had some snow in the mountains. I wasn’t sure what I’d find at the lake, but I took some warm clothes and a couple rods and went to see. There was no snow on the trail to the water or on the shore on the north side of the lake. I picked a spot and started fishing. It was fairly warm, probably 40 degrees, mostly sunny, and just a slight breeze. I tried some different lures, with no bite for a while. I decided to try the old standard night crawler and finally got a really light nibble and caught a small rainbow trout. I fished for quite a while longer with no luck. I decided to leave and head to Sportsmans Warehouse to pick up some ice fishing tackle. I was all packed up and reeled in my line to leave when I realized the wind had stopped, the lake was glass, and there was starting to be some shadows on the water. I looked out and said to myself that in the summer if I was to cast right along the shadow line I’d catch a fish. I casted out an seconds later a fish hit my worm really hard. It fought hard enough I wasn’t sure what it was until I got it close. Turned out to be a pretty nice rainbow. I decided to keep it for dinner and said if there was one there, there had to be more. Turned out I didn’t get anything else, but it was too nice to leave right away. Needless to say I got home a couple hours late. I really needed that fish therapy. It had been way too long since I’d been out.